April 26, 2008

Great play on "Oh, mama, can this really be the end" in this Dylanesque riff on Obama's Jeremiah Wright problem.

Sorry for all the Obama-Jeremiah material today. That's just the way the blogging cards played out on this slow news Saturday. I'm not anti-Obama. If I were not sworn to cruel neutrality, I might rank him first of the 3 imperfect characters we much choose from. But he's running for President and he must be tested.

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Much of Wright's view of world politics, which he specifically links to scripture could very well be based on Sun Tzu. Why reinvent the wheel? There is a lot to be said for a foriegn policy that focuses on the minds of the enemy, so says the bible and Sun Tzu (and American history, which seems to be forgotten every generation or so--introspection is good.)

For the record, Rumsfeld had claimed that Sun Tzu was his favorite. And, the Iraqi invasion did follow a Sun Tzu strategy. But the Iraqi occupation completely ignored Sun Tzu's advice.

Something's changed here. You used to be as dead set against Clinton as anyone. Lately you, G. Reynolds & T. Maguire all publish a lot of negative stuff about Obama while giving Clinton a base-on-balls.

"Zeus, let me but push this one forward. What say you? Will it bring 109 visitors or 50 to my temple?""My dear, but I so love the flowers. Why don't we go with the pretty little flowers.""But they don't come alive at the site of flowers. It's the blood. Nothing but the blood.""But they all get so frenzied, as though it matters" he says."That is what delights. There must be blood."

Lisa, I must agree with Fen in that the ACLU's position is not credible given that facts and the situation about the military commissions charged with trying the Gitmo prisoners. The feelings you have, the emotions you experience, are not at all justified by the facts in these cases.

Of course, one alternative to what you suggest is to summarily execute each so-called detainee as they are captured on this battlefield upon which the GWOT is being waged. Then, there would not be an issue with what to do about battlefield detainee's as there would be none. It would also cut down on the need for welfare for those persons. A great costs savings, eh?

More than any other aspect of this new kind of global war on terrorism, what to do about prisoners is troubling to many concerned persons. Please remember that at the end of WWII, international tribunals were instituted only for some of the most major cases. In the Pacific Theater, there were cases of military tribunals carrying out trials. Justice may have been rough in some incidents but it was justice.

Are you one of those who would go quietly, and peacefully, to the gas chambers or the head-chopping plazas of the Islamo-Fascists? If so, please be a parade of one with no one else in that hideous line. That is what you are asking for, may you be alone in that cry for martyrdom!